enter on the boards
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enter on the boards (third-person singular simple present enters on the boards, present participle entering on the boards, simple past and past participle entered on the boards)
- (UK, Cambridge University, transitive, idiomatic, archaic) To inscribe the name of (a student) on a board or tablet in a college.
- 1834, author not stated, possibly Alfred, Lord Tennyson???, Preface to Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam
- having been entered on the boards of Trinity college
- 1834, author not stated, possibly Alfred, Lord Tennyson???, Preface to Remains in Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam